The true emotive soul, the psyche within, is not a desire-soul, but a soul of pure love and delight, that can only emerge when the life of desire is no longer the characteristic action of our being.
Artists: Marlenka
Mind, life and body are the three powers of our lower nature; life acts as a link, giving its character to body and mentality. Finally, there is a secret supermind, the proper means and native seat of divine perfection.
Universe seems to be always trying to swallow up man, but the universal being is working out its purpose in man ... as he develops the element of sympathy born of the secret oneness.
Man must find his highest self, ceasing to be his mental, vital and physical ego (not his real self but merely an instrument of Nature) ... thus he acts as if he were a separate existence in the material universe.
Man can become aware by a developing power of Yoga, that his material existence is not a thing apart and self-existent. From his present imperfection he can develop towards greater perfection.
Matter (or body) is a limiting form of substance of spirit in which life, mind and spirit are involved, self-hidden, self-forgetful but ... bound to emerge by a self-compelling evolution.
Life has to change into a thing vast, calm, intense and powerful vs. its old blind, narrow, self of petty impulse and desire it now is, and become instead a conscious servant, a radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.
All life is a secret yoga, Nature's growth towards the discovery of the divine principle hidden within her.
By any single power of the soul-nature we can meet with the Divine; each at its height rises up into infinite and absolute ... for all the hundred separate paths meet in the Eternal.
Each Yoga, Hatha, Raja, the ways of knowledge, devotion and works are guided in the ways of their own characteristic power. But all power is in the end one, all power is really soul-power.